When Pain Strikes (Theory Out Of Bounds) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 081662948X ISBN 13: 9780816629480

Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, 1998

Synopsis

When pain strikes, do you raid the medicine cabinet? Read a self-help manual? Hit the roof? How we respond to pain - what we think about it, what we say, and what we do - is the subject of this collection of writings and images. The book's five sections contains a myriad of complex responses to the occurrence of pain: "Measure it", discusses biomedical responses; "Cut it open", takes up surgical interventions; "Take a pill", looks at pharmacology; and "Intensify it", examines positions that embrace pain. Each section comprises original artwork, scholarly analyses, poetic and literary texts, and discussions by activists. Hailing from the university, the gallery, and the community organization, the authors - as TV watchers, recreational drug users, recipients of medical attention, caregivers, midwives, or the HIV positive - inhabit and reconfigure our contemporary painscape, offering an alternative approach to the puzzle of pain.

About this title

From the Back Cover

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About the Author

Kim Sawchuk is associate professor of communications studies at Concordia University in Montreal, Quebec.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 081662948X
• ISBN 13: 9780816629480
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Burns Bill, Busby Cathy, Sawchuk Kim